employment issues

‘You shouldn’t have a maid, you are not busy enough!’: Coworker criticizes young professor for hiring household help, tries to shame her at a work dinner for not doing her own chores, pushing the lecturer to shut it down and cut her out

Etai Eshet

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3-year-Veteran Employee gets passed over by New Hire for a promotion they were promised, then has to train her and is still helping her do her job a year later

Brad Dickson

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24-year-old data analyst shuts down meddling aunt who keeps pushing “better” career ideas, tells her to try doing his job herself

Etai Eshet

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Manager uses ChatGPT to write employee's performance review, sparking debate on the importance and ethics of having AI handle certain aspects of our work: 'It didn't even understand my role'

Brad Dickson

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Employee gets caught after building an app to track how many times his coworkers say "circling back" in meetings

Ben Weiss

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‘Should I tell my boss how upset I am with them?’: Employee wants to skip work lunch her boss invited her to, because she doesn’t like 2 of the coworkers who are also attending

Etai Eshet

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28-year-old graphic designer and 5-year company veteran discovers they're making less than 2 college graduate new hires: 'I'm supposed to train people who make more money than me'

Brad Dickson

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Fast-food new-hire finds themselves 30 minutes late for their first shift when the manager forgets to tell them they were hired and scheduled, leading to a tense phone call: 'It's not my responsibility to inform you about your schedule'

Brad Dickson

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30-year-old woman blocks male coworker for “being distant” after she stepped back to appease her jealous boyfriend, and still expected casual friendly office small talk: '[She] blocked me for respecting the distance she created'

Etai Eshet

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‘He’s trying to get me fired but he’s just too dumb to do it well’: Coworker tries to get the contractor in trouble by micromanaging and tattling to higher ups but they all ignore him

Etai Eshet

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Retired coworker Jeff spots a colleague on medical leave eating dinner and decides to play unpaid HR and tells their managers

Etai Eshet

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Boss admits she intentionally gave one employee extra work to test how they cope, while her coworker, Sue, slacks and leaves them handling whole project alone

Etai Eshet

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Job candidate sends pointed email to HR over company's hiring process, gets a scathingly unprofessional response from the CEO

Brad Dickson

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Boss denies 25-year veteran employee’s fully prepared PTO request, blocking their vacation despite having plenty of accrued time off

Etai Eshet

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Employee realizes how miserable they are in their current role after being appointed temporarily to another team: 'I wasn't waking up dreading the day [anymore]'

Brad Dickson

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Employee acts like her manager’s director, constantly second-guesses completed work, and creates fake emergencies: ‘She is constantly acting like we are not doing our jobs’

Etai Eshet

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